BEDMINSTER — A representative of real estate mogul Donald Trump has again asked for a delay in a proposal for a family cemetery on his golf course.

The Bedminster Township Land Use Board was scheduled Thursday to hear testimony from witnesses on behalf of the Trump National Golf Club, also known as the Lamington Farm Golf Club, but the board received a letter from the club asking for a delay until June.

According to the minutes of the Sept. 13 land use board meeting, attorney Joel Kobert, representing the applicant, asked to withdraw a prior application for about a 9-acre cemetery with 548 plots and instead applied for two lots within the confines of the golf course comprised of .28-acres for 82 cemetery plots and another a 2.65 acre lot with 942 plots.

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There would also have been land set aside for wealthy lifetime club members who pay as much as $300,000 in membership fees to serve as their final resting place.

But those plans were withdrawn after drawing criticism from local officials in this town graced by horse farms and imposing mansions who said the memorial was "gaudy and out of step with the town’s rural character."

At a March meeting, planner Richard Preiss, hired by opponents to the plan, said he did not believe that applicant had proven the land is good for this use and that the town already has enough cemeteries, according to a report in Patch.

Following Preiss’s testimony, Russo requested and recieved an adjuournment from the board until May 9 to allow for him to prepare and bring in rebuttal witnesses, which has now been delayed again.

The cemetery proposal is now on the agenda for the board's June 13 meeting, according to board secreatry Trina Lindsey.